STONEHAM – Voters at Saturday’s annual meeting will consider whether to appropriate $35,000 to maintain the Albany Township dump, an increase of $5,000 from last year. They will also decide what to do with the money from excise taxes and snowmobile registrations.
The Board of Selectmen is recommending appropriating $35,000 to repair roads and bridges; $33,000 was appropriated last year. The meeting begins at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Stoneham Fire Station. There are 74 articles on the warrant.
Residents also are being asked to allocate $9,000 to fund the Fire Department, higher than the approximate $7,500 appropriated last year.
The Board of Selectmen is recommending that money from excise taxes be placed in the town’s general fund; options for monies from snowmobile registrations will be discussed.
Article 8 asks voters to approve $31,000 to pay town employees. That amount includes a 50-cent-per-hour raise for the town clerk. Also on the warrant are elections for a town clerk and one selectman and the appointment of a budget committee.
In addition, the three selectmen are recommending that no more than $4,500 be appropriated for fuel, lights and telephones for town buildings, and that $2,750 be appropriated for street lighting.
A small sum of $329.95 is recommended for a town Web site.
Voters last year appropriated $98,000 for municipal government, with $89,000 coming from taxes. That amount was about the same as 2004.
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